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Breakouts, bubbles and Baltic blues

Even after Monday's hiccup, the overall technical backdrop the Nasdaq and the Standard & Poor's 500 indexes suggest the start of a sustainable longer-term rally, says Michael Ashbaugh. He looks back to where move started, with the mid-May breakout on the Nasdaq.

Mark Hulbert reports on one newsletter editor that's hot on housing stocks. James Dlugosch, editor of The Rational Investor, finds them to be, "such that any follower of Graham and Dodd would consider stocks in this sector to be a bargain." So much for a housing bubble. And in The Guru's Corner, Dlugosch himself writes an exclusive for MarketWatch naming Google
GOOG, -1.20%
and Sirius
SIRI, +1.25%
as bargains as well. Rational? Judge for yourself.

Our newest member to the newsletter team, Kevin Kerr, picks up the commodities beat. He kicks off with a look at Russian gas gouging and its affect on the Baltic States. Be sure to check out his new newsletter, the MarketWatch Global Resources Trader.

And Peter Brimelow reports on perennial bear Charles Allmon, Herb Greenberg unravels the spin on acquisitions, David Nassar scales the "wall of worry," and Robert Powell examines a survey on nursing homes.

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